Set in a crumbling new England mansion in the 1800s, Florence & Giles is a very creepy read. Florence is 12 and her younger brother, Giles, is 8. Their father and mother are both dead and their uncle, who is meant to be raising them, has left them in his country estate.

Florence occupies her time making up her own language, reading in the cavernous library, and entertaining her neighbour Theo.

After a brief stint at boarding school, where he is bullied regularly and sends sad letters home to his sister, Giles is sent back home to be raised by the collection of servants and a governess. The first governess mysteriously dies in a boating accident and the second seems to want to steal Giles away from Florence, something she is determined to prevent. How far she will go takes the book down a very dark road…

Something to read on a dark, cold night, when you have a cozy duvet over you and some branches scratching on the window pane outside to make you jump at all the right bits. Spine chilling.